Brent Sordyl's blog

These are the recommended conventions for RESTful URLs, based on work pioneered by Ruby on Rails, which again is closely modelled over Atompub . Following these conventions for both HTTP method names and URL construction will allow your application to be consumed by ActiveResource, Jester, and other RESTful clients. Note that Rails 1.x used “;edit” and “;new” in place of the simpler “/edit” and “/new” recommended going forward.
(Link: recommended conventions for RESTful URLs)